Matt et al.,



We appreciate the effort expended by all in compiling county year lists.
However, if the number of birders using eBird continues to increase, you may
not need to do it in a couple more years-- eBird will do it all for you.
The only exceptions may be a few sparsely-populated counties which have few
eBird contributors.



The current total of species reported this year for Washington is 370 as
reported by you, and 366 as reported by eBird. It seems that there are few
if any rarities these days that are not reported to eBird. I haven't looked
to see what the discrepancies are between the two lists, but the eBird year
list for the state can be seen at



http://ebird.org/ebird/sightings?listType=first
<http://ebird.org/ebird/sightings?listType=first&locInfo.regionType=subnatio
nal1&locInfo.regionCode=US-WA&beginYear=2012&endYear=2012&continuous=false&s
ortBy=taxon_order>
&locInfo.regionType=subnational1&locInfo.regionCode=US-WA&beginYear=2012&end
Year=2012&continuous=false&sortBy=taxon_order





The point of this message, of course, is to encourage even more birders to
submit their bird sightings to eBird, which will make your sightings readily
available to others, as well as facilitate the compilation of things like
state and county year lists.



Good birding to all!



Wayne C. Weber

Delta, BC

contopus at telus.net









From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Matt
Bartels
Sent: July-12-12 1:14 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu; Inland NW
Subject: [Tweeters] Updated cumulative county year list file available
online



Hi Tweeters & Inland-NW-Birders -



An updated version of the 2012 county year list project is up at Washington
Birder. We've received updates from almost all the counties with details
through the end of June. For those not received, I substituted the e-bird
year list to help fill things out. County compilers, especially for the
underbirded counties, would appreciate receiving reports of any birds seen
in their counties.



Not surprisingly, given all the rare birds that have popped up this spring,
we are doing better than last year at this stage:

Last year at the mid-way point, we had tallied tallied 326 species in
Western WA, 291 in Eastern WA, and 365 statewide. This year, we've reported
331 species in Western WA, 299 in Eastern WA, and 370 in all of Washington.



12 Western WA counties have higher totals that at this time last year, and
14 Eastern WA counties are doing better than last year.



Black-throated Sparrows have been popping up all over, showing up on 13
county lists so far [with 6 of those in Western WA!]



All counties have tallied over 150 species so far, and more than 20 are over
200 for the year -- I think that's mostly a sign of better coverage and
reporting these days, but a great sign of what is possible to see out there
in every corner of the state. And in a sign of what a difference an
individual's big year effort can make, Kittitas County has recorded 100 more
species this year so far than it had by the mid-way point last year --
Scott's Kittitas Big Year effort is paying off for us all!



If you'd like to take a look at where things stand, the list and many other
interesting files are at the Washington Birder website:



<http://www.wabirder.com/> http://www.wabirder.com/





A direct link to the 2012 county year list & the list of county compilers,
including a growing number of direct links to individual county year lists
with more details and more frequent updates:



http://wabirder.com/bartel.html





Thanks to all the compilers and all those pitching in to sketch a picture of
another year's birds in WA.





Matt Bartels

Seattle, WA